Christmas in Louisville 2013

For Christmas 2013, we decided to stay in Louisville and see what this great city has to offer for the Christmas Season.  I'm glad we decided to do this!!  There's so much to do at Christmas time in this city.  Here are some of the pictures of the different things we did and places we went.  Enjoy!!

First, I must mention, that Christmas time ushered in the beginnings of the Polar Vortex over here in Kentucky.  This is Matt's truck covered in icicles  right before we left to go to the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky.

This is a pretty bad quality of a picture, but it's the only one that I actually took at the Creation Museum.  So this is the only actual proof that I have that we went there.  :)  Matt got to hold this huge snake, I didn't really want too.  I'm not a snake person.  :)  We love to visit the Creation Museum and this was the first activity we did to usher in the Christmas season here in Kentucky.

We spent the entire day at the Creation Museum, and then spent the night over in Ohio, near Cincinnati.   We quickly realized that Matt's windshield wiper blades from California had given up the ghost and were no match for the Northern KY, snow.  :)

Louisville, is known for having the best city water there is.  I don't really have anything to compare it with since I'm a country girl who grew up on well water.  I still don't drink the water from the tap here though.  In this picture Matt and I are walking around the water treatment plant's reservoir.  The water is pumped in directly from the Ohio river and treated here.  It was a really cold and windy day; that's why my hair looks even more wild than it usually does.  :)

Here's something really unique that we did.  We went and saw Christmas lights inside a cave.  It was pretty amazing.  It was called Lights Under Louisville.  This picture is the entrance to the cave.  I thought it was interesting that the first light display said, "Keep Christ in Christmas."  The next few photos are from are time under Louisville enjoying the light displays.  It was about a 20 minute drive through this amazingly festive cavern.

We enjoyed going to the Frazier History Museum in Downtown Louisville on a Sunday afternoon.  They had a bunch of Christmas trees on display and each one was decorated to the theme of a different country.

For our Christmas Eve dinner this year we had schnitzel with spaetzle.  As you can see it was definitely a German themed dinner.  We were on a schnitzel kick and it seemed like it would make a great Christmas Eve dinner. We even made the spaetzle from scratch.  After our dinner we went to Clifton Baptist Church for the first Christmas Eve service that we have ever been too.  We really enjoyed our time at church, and then we went around town and enjoyed all the different light displays at people's homes.  It was a great Christmas Eve night finished off by watching the Nativity, and sleeping out in the living room by the Christmas tree.  

Our Christmas morning tradition is to wake up and have freshly made maple cinnamon rolls.  We love the recipe from the Pioneer Woman's cook book.  They were so good as you can tell by the empty plate.  :)

This is a crazy picture.  We look like we've had way too much sugar or something.  :) Matt's mom sent us our Christmas gifts and when we opened them, confetti exploded everywhere.  It was so funny!! Our carpet was literally covered in confetti.

I got Matt a bunch of calligraphy supplies for his gift.

Matt got me some really nice frying pans and also some quilting supplies.


We really had a great Christmas as we celebrated our Lord's birth over here in Louisville, KY.  We constantly praise the Lord for where He has brought us and what he is teaching us while we are here at Southern  Seminary.